Ahead, 3/4 Impulse: 12Week Year 6/ROW80 Round 1; Midweek 1

Hey there!

I can’t say I’ve attained warp speed yet, but I’m gaining momentum. I was originally worried that having a submission goal so early in the round would put too much pressure on me. Instead, it focused me. Not only did I get the submission in with about 3 hours to spare, I completed a revision that significantly improved the draft, and I did it without any panic.

The early success has buoyed me. I’m on my way.

How are you doing with your goals?

Not at warp, but also not encased in the glass of a currently defunded museum gift shop….

Week One Totals:

Completed: 14/59; 24%

In Progress: 23/59; 39%

Still Waiting: 22/59; 37%

SELFTENDING:

Completed: 10/24; 42%

In Progress: 9/24; 38%

Still Waiting: 5/24; 20%

Body (9 items):

I complete a 200 meter swim.

I rereadIntuitive Eating through Chapter 7; 28%.

I assess approximate number of whole grains currently consumed.

I assess approximate number of vegetables/fruits currently consumed.

I assess approximate amount of fish/seafood currently consumed.

I assess approximate amount of water currently consumed.

I assess approximate number of self-prepared meals/snacks currently consumed.

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I am myself. I own my life, and live with three other people who own theirs. My intention is to do only those things that bring me joy, and to give myself wholly to those things I do.
Writing has been my passion throughout my life, and this will become the home for my writing life...because it brings me great joy!
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Shan, I appreciate your very organized way of creating balance and nurturing creativity in your life — with family, friends, your self, and the writing. Congrats on getting those revisions done AND in making the deadline for your submission. I’m hoping that 2019 will bring you much joy. My personal motto is to cherish each moment — as you do.

It’s less about seeking balance, and more about creating an ever-shifting blend that fits all the parameters of my life. It’s an inexact science at best…you know, Lovely Chaos! =)

The organization is something I’ve had to focus on – I’m not especially organized by nature, and I used to avoid any attempts to systemize my life.

Once I found more open-ended systems I can adapt as needed, though – things got a LOT better in a short time. I keep learning, and finding what works for me. That will be changing again this year, because Jeremiah will be 18 (!!!!!!!!!) in early September, and I become “mom as support network” rather than “mom as sole parent legally responsible for his care.”

I’ll blink my eyes after that, and Lise will have finished her legally required homeschooling…oh, and before either of those, I may have a part-time job. I’ve been out of the work force for 11 years, and it will be a change!

Jim’s motto was “Eat dessert first”, and we’ve kind of adopted that here – less in the literal sense, and more in the living life with joy as much as we can sense.

I almost didn’t make the deadline. I had a specific idea for a story in mind, but it wasn’t solidifying the way I needed it to to really draft it. In the not so distant past, I would have given up, but instead, I took a story that I wrote last spring, went through it with a fine-toothed comb, as it were, polished it up, and sent it back out into the world again. It’s a much better story, and I also sent two of the three poems I wrote – one of them isn’t ready for the world yet, and I know it.

It was a good feeling to send them out. There’s another submission I want to make for the end of the month; now I can focus on that.

Thank you, Shan, for your thoughtful response. We can say that change is constant — and sometimes it brings great change, even chaos, but we learn from the process as well. With tenacity and grit, we go forward with love, cherishing what we can, accepting the change that inevitably comes, and keeping those good memories close. I can’t believe Jeremiah is nearly 18, that you will start a new job . . . but hope 2019 will be very good to you. Always, Beth

It’ll be nice to see you bring back the Kifo Island stories. They were/are lovely. The steps you’ve made already will propel you through the rest of the round… no matter what Life may hand you, you’ve already got this.

The Kifo Island series hasn’t gone anywhere – it just got caught, like everything else in my life – in the whirlwind of this last year. I wrote in both current WIPs in the last 12 months – I just didn’t manage to finish either of them.

So that is going to happen, and I’m going to have a moving-forward-with-the-series plan, before I start any new ones (I’ve lost track, but I think these two will make eight complete rough drafts). The only one I’ve started revisions on is Sea Changes, (Ava, Donovan, and Karina’s story), so it’s past time to start looking toward getting that done.

Honestly, I’ve just been holding off to finish the revision course with my fanfiction, so I can start running Kifo books through with some sense of what I’m getting into.

I’m finiding that the 12 Week Year method works very well. It’s impossible to argue with percentages, and that helps me see where I’m maybe trying to do too much (something I’m very prone to do, but becoming more mindful of).

And thank you. It’s good to have a submission out there right out of the gate!